Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: have gone to the right to housing, water, education, or health and attainable health standards. Talking about health, this is one area that our counties have greater obligation. It saddens me, as the Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County, and as a Senator in this great Republic, that the state of health in this nation is appalling. Yes, we thank devolution because some of our counties have invested in health. However, the standards are deteriorating. For instance, in my county, the first few years of devolution, the county had put a lot of effort in ensuring that the health facilities have been ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, my conversation with citizens of my county tells me that the people are not being involved accountably in the manner in which these health facilities are being run. Information is not trickling down to the people as to the reason why these health facilities are not being managed in the manner that is required. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Therefore, we must make, in this law, provisions that will make it mandatory for the county to report, including the amount of money that is spent on social economic rights. If you talk about the right to food, we must go to Elgeyo-Marakwet County and find out how much money has been put in the agriculture sector to guarantee this right to food. If we go to the right to health, we must ask how much money has been put into health, including health facilities; how much is being spent and how much is being raised. Madam Temporary Speaker, that ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: institutions. For us to ensure that rights are achieved in this nation, we must allow the Kenyan National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) to perform. We must allow the National Gender Commission (NGC) to work. We must allow the Commission of Administrative of Justice (CAJ) to perform its responsibilities independently. I challenge my colleagues in Government, in Jubilee and in the administration of the Government that it is good as a nation for us to accept institutions to operate independently. It is good because, today, we are in office, but you will not be in those offices tomorrow; and you will ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you and my colleagues who have already spoken, particularly the Deputy Senate Minority Leader, who is a former MCA. He is definitely an inspiration to our MCAs up there. Sen. Malalah is my friend. Therefore, I can say anything. First of all, I would like to thank the MCAs of Elgeyo-Marakwet County Assembly for visiting today. I can see the MCAs for Kapchemutwa, Moiben-Kuserwo and Kamariny wards. I can also see the three nominated MCAs. They are very important people in our county assembly. I am very happy that they are here to learn from the ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to state that some of us did exactly the same before we found ourselves sitting in the Chamber here. Without demeaning the position of MCA, I emphasize that we have more than three MCAs in this House who are now Senators. Tomorrow, they could be something else. Therefore, serving in county assembly is a great honour and a great responsibility. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you must have seen public discourse between the officials of Elgeyo-Marakwet County and I. I have a lot of confidence in the current MCAs in my county in terms of looking ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in Senate: I was looking at the budget of Elgeyo Marakwet County, despite the fact that we have a whole county assembly, which is a whole arm of government getting Kshs500 million only, while the office of the Governor alone has Kshs167 million allocated to itself for mandazi, tea and hiring of every kind of advisor. We cannot allow the pilferage that is happening in counties to continue. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in Senate: I want to challenge MCAs who come from Elgeyo Marakwet County, that they must take the oversight role seriously because, Elgeyo Marakwet County, apart from having ghost workers, I saw in the office of the Governor, including when the Governor spoke to the press the other day, some brokers who have absolutely no additional value to the County who have been hired and put in the County’s payroll. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Elgeyo Marakwet County should do a proper audit of staff and persons serving in the County Executive at the behest of political interest. Secondly, I want to emphasize that the County Assembly has a role in approving the chief officers and the CECs that serve in the county executive. It is appalling - I can say it here without any fear of contradiction - that in my County, they went for the worst people who could ever serve Elgeyo Marakwet County. view
• 21 Feb 2019 in Senate: Since the MCAs are standing here, I want to tell them that when the chief officers are brought to the County Assembly, they must do us a favor and get the best people to serve the County and avoid vetting persons with considerations such as who is a friend of the governor, who campaigned for the governor and or who gave campaign money to the governor? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view